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Baitball Blogger

(46,737 posts) Mon Oct 15, 2018, 06:50 PM Oct 2018

Those Babbel commercials.

Have you ever noticed how the people who provide the testimonials always speak in English? I think it would be a huge selling point if they gave us a sample of what they learned. Let us hear them speak in foreign languages so we can judge their accents.

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Those Babbel commercials. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Oct 2018 OP

So damn funny when the commercial voice asks "did you know that Europeans speak more languages?". Mike Rows His Boat Oct 2018 #1

Bingo. Baitball Blogger Oct 2018 #2

Mike Rows His Boat

(389 posts)

1. So damn funny when the commercial voice asks "did you know that Europeans speak more languages?".

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2018, 07:19 PM

Oct 2018

I wonder if people understand that one can catch a train in Denmark in the morning, and eat lunch in Italy, for example. And they can stop over at at least a half dozen other countries. All that have different languages, and nearly borderless.

Still ... Babbel thinks it's because of the way language is taught (US schools = bad schools).

I chuckle every time I hear that one.

Baitball Blogger

(46,737 posts)

2. Bingo.

Reply to Mike Rows His Boat (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 15, 2018, 07:20 PM

Oct 2018

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